Indeed! The old magiks were good enough. Thye young ones today could do well to learn some lines of command!

You put your hands on your hips!

A dozen, a hundred..? It's impossible to resist.

I don't understand what this is, but I enjoyed it.

"Rise of the Tomb Raider" might scratch that itch. It has great atmosphere, there's no base building, and the collectibles are all optional (but thematically appropriate, as they're all lost artifacts, and naturally Lara is inclined to "recover"them.)

yoCcM has other problems, beyond Kirk's self conscious fears.

Yea. Slightly modified - "If conditions are now so prefect now that 8 billion humans can ask their computer nicely to program itself, and it works, then why is non-shit-tier software still vanishingly rare?"

Too much risk of fireball ear.

It's fair game after getting legally married, though.

Not my living room. Nice try, fuckers.

Why does it cost so much to engineer new models?

We need at least two massive quantum leaps in quality before this stuff can be long-term profitable; and there probably simply aren't two quantum leaps left in the current pathways being explored.

But turning off all the bots, contracts, and lies would cause the investment money to stop immediately, rather than later.

Everyone perpetrating this scam wants to cash out a tiny bit more before it crashes.

Right. But Fermi's Paradox applies.

Everyone is buying and selling software miracle cure...but all of the software itself is still exaclty as healthy as a con artists prize race horse (not healthy, and actually a mule).